I replaced the .bas file with a complete distro, as pointed out in Leonis excellent ZX Spectrum Next Database by Leonis newsletter post.
Colin Fowle
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been chipping away at pulling all this together for a v1 release. So much to do. Tidying the code, still need to fix the high score table, but added more sounds, credits, cover screen and some additional animations.
I may change the way the timer works, and will add additional layouts for future levels
Pulling together the (very basic) start screen for Joystick / Keyboard selection, I stumbled across some weird crash/hard reset but in the Next KS2. I tried to reproduce it separately from the main game, but no luck.
It seemed to be when changing from Layer 2,1 to Layer 0 and clearing the screen / sprites, but it also seems to move around when I add and remove lines of code in the start screen.
Even more strange, it may do it once, and reset the machine, then when you re-load the .bas file and run it, its ok. Other times it may do it twice in a row.
Not sure what's going on but probably related to the memory banks for sprites, the music and the sound effects perhaps not playing nicely.
I just need to sort the high score table, and then I can release a v1 (hopefully without the crash bug, but once the game is running, it's stable).
More soon....
